JUWEL RIO 240 (LOW ENERGY, NO CO2) HOW I CARE FOR AND MAINTAIN THIS BEAUTIFUL AQUARIUM 2020

#geordiescaper #horizonaquatics #juwelrio240
Hi all!
Here is my weekly routine to keep my aquarium healthy and clean.
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GS
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[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hope you enjoy this one and don't forget to hit the like button, really helps me out...How much water do you change per week?

[@tadeokeith3549]

I guess Im kinda randomly asking but do anyone know of a good place to stream new series online?

[@kaibeckham8486]

@Tadeo Keith I watch on flixzone. You can find it on google =)

[@radoslavzavazan9925]

Do not know if I missed it but what is the light you are using on this aquarium? btw that tank is quite spectacular

[@colinblake4284]

Thanks Mark. Great, straightforward advice for those of us who are not as experienced.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thanks Colin, glad you got something from it, much appreciated👍

[@Larry1983_]

I think you should call it the stadium of light. Looks greatGeordie scaper.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Haha no chance Laurence, cheers mate👍👍

[@krystynapichet6943]

Very nice room 😊 absolutely gorgeous aquarium! 😍😍😍

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou so much😊👍

[@teaforthree1]

Your tank is terrific so I wouldn’t dream of carping, but with that fantastic filtration I bet if you tested the water you’d find you didn’t need such big water changes. Although originally from down the road from you I’m now in a part of Spain where it’s bottled water or mostly RO mixed with tap, so less water change the better cost wise. Anyway, love your videos.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi Henry,, water changes I do around 60% once a week now. Thankyou so much for the kind words and really happy you are enjoying my videos😊👍

[@vincenzopazienza890]

Hi GS! good video on maintenance. I'm from the Netherlands; this is aquarium hobbyist dream country: There is no chlorine in the tapwater here. You can pour tapwater straight into your tank, it makes life easy! Keep up the good work mate.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi Vincenzo, chlorine free tap water, that's great👍👍thankyou so much for taking the time to comment and glad you enjoyed the video, very much appreciated😊

[@michaellunt4018]

Thanks for another great video. I recently got rid of my 5ft cichlid tank due to redecorating. I will be downsizing with my next tank. I have kept fish for 30 years, however, have never used real plant. You have inspired me enough to set up a planted tank when I get my new one. Cheers :)

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thanks Michael, really appreciate that, nothing better than inspiring someone😊Good luck with your new setup👍

[@jascarty3503]

Cheers geordie, I thought you might say horizon aquatics after watching all your videos over the last couple of days, I will pop in and have a look around, they might even have a decent aquarium I could pickup, keep scaping pal, cheers and all the best.. Jas

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

No probs👍you'll be blown away by Horizon and great range of tanks👍

[@Gekermans1]

You are a legend! Great video mate!

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou so much, really appreciate the kind words😊

[@mathildakd1]

Great tank and really enjoyable video! Keep up the good job

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou so much, glad you enjoyed👍

[@Laphroig1482]

Thanks a lot for this video.I'm still waiting for my new Rio 450.I also want to run it without CO2 if ever possible.And you reminded me of Jeff,that bloke from Newcastle,whom my wife and I often met in Manila!Keep it up mate!👍

[@Laphroig1482]

20to 30 % change once a week is my plan.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Great stuff, wherever you go there's no escaping a geordie🤣

[@bm3aquatic]

Really excited to see your gallery when it is complete. Really like your clean lines and how you design all the little details for a cohesive display. One of the best channels in my opinion 👌

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Wow, that's a great compliment, thankyou so much. Can't wait to get the gallery/office done.

[@bm3aquatic]

@@GEORDIESCAPER I bet! I do water changes on my 3 tanks 1x/ week between 40-60%

[@berndtwiest4571]

Interesting video, great aquarium.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou so much for taking the time to comment.

[@PaulTarnecki]

Great as usual mate. Top class! Fingers crossed one can follow all that work 🍻👌

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thanks Paul, much appreciated👍

[@markmcdonnell010]

Love your videos mate, another very useful insight into what others do with their low techs. Buying a juwel 240 today and you've helped me with a few tips

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Great stuff, glad you're enjoying my videos. Best of luck with your new Juwel setup👍

[@davidbarnett8199]

Great video as normal. Will definitely have a look at those fertilisers.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thanks David, much appreciated. Love the Prodibio ferts👍

[@adamduncan339]

Excellent video mate

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thanks mate, very much appreciated👍

[@AdyM35]

Nice video mate, some great tips. Balansae is coming in a treat 👌🏻

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Cheers mate appreciate it, love the Balansae👍

[@jscapes782]

Tanks growing in really well mate

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

cheers👍👍

[@DeanR3]

Another great vid mark 👌 very helpful and i will do the same 2 water changes or for me will be one every 4 days but will do what you do one main water change and quick water change, looking forward to what the future holds gallery soinds great mate.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi Dean, Thankyou so much and glad you got something from the video. Exciting stuff ahead with the gallery👍

[@jonathansevers8571]

Nice dad 🌿🌿☘☘☘

[@shane4090]

I have a juwel 240 led just sat with white sand in it, ive been looking for inspiration and this may be it, love it it, I have a pair of breeding kribs living in there at the moment, looks like I'm going shopping Saturday.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Great stuff, i say this alot but i really mean it, no better compliment than knowing I've inspired someone. Thankyou so much👍

[@greenman1426]

Great video as always! I really love that tank! Looks great. Liked and subscribed

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou so much, really do appreciate it👍

[@skidstar72]

Wonderful! (lol) I just bought this exact tank and am setting it up as we speak! Your's is an inspiration. (Dawn in Australia)

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi Dawn, nothing better than inspiring someone, thankyou so much, flattered😊Good luck with your setup👍🌱🌿💚

[@skidstar72]

@@GEORDIESCAPER Its now filled, filtering and heating up! Cant wait to get some plants in there soon

[@COBO2]

Do you a unboxing video and seting up video of the Juwel Rio 240?

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi there, I'm sorry but I wasn't doing youtube when I purchased the Juwel aquarium.

[@stephenwinfield5573]

Lol love it. Good tips. You mind me asking you if I have issues with mine ? As I say I'm a new aquarium fish keeper and I just don't want my fish to die or be stressed. Thanks.

[@paul.b1730]

Great info. Cheers!

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thanks Paul👍😊

[@oscarlindvall1053]

Nice setup! :)

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou so much Oscar👍

[@erhanacar71]

great video thank you for sharing

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou, glad you enjoyed it👍

[@craigsmart1986]

Cracking tank mate

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

cheers mate😊👍

[@Mikemkp]

Hi bud great vid can you remember the name of the plants you have stuck on the bogwood that looks like long grass thank you ?

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thank you. Trident fern, great plant 👍

[@Mikemkp]

@@GEORDIESCAPER thank you my friend

[@juliaabelle8581]

Great video, thank you! Did you keep the original light? It feels very strong and bright and I notice building of algie. It seems it's impossible to change the brightness as it's static. I will have to shorten hours of lighting, hope it helps.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi Julia, glad you enjoyed the video, thank you. I did change the light eventually to an app controlled one so I could change intensity according to plant mass. If I don't have a controllable light I go for around 6 hours if I'm not injecting CO2 to help keep algae at bay.

[@juliaabelle8581]

Great answer, thank you! Will test going to 6hrs to begin with :) @@GEORDIESCAPER

[@SpiritAquatics]

Useful stuff 👍 I just set up my rio 180 today with the wood gravel and soil from Horizon Aquatics. Coppied the pump method too. No way am I doing water changes by bucket on this ahaha 😂

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Great stuff, yeah buckets, nightmare.

[@ptmarley5]

Smashing vid GS. Thanks for sharing your ‘behind the scenes’ method. I’m a ~60% once a weeker. Seeing your results has prompted me to try an additional ‘water only’ in the week. I have a Biomaster600 too. I note the mixed colours (grades) of foam in your pre-filter. What’s the thinking behind that? (I’ve just stuck with the blue so far)

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou so much, more work but i think the water changes really help. I thought using different grades of sponge may help with flow but to be honest if you're cleaning them weekly anyways probably little effect on flow. I would just stick with the blue.

[@sassilou]

Hey mate, I've got the same aquarium as you. I don't like the lighting system that comes with it! The lid etc...I've binned it! what is the length of your lighting and where can I get it! Been worried about a light not clipping on correctly! And thanks for this video! My 240L is secondhand so it's getting a make over. The stand had water damage so I've vinyl wrapped it and it looks amazing! In a soft grey! Also I have my external filter in a basin as this helps to catch drips!

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi there, the lights we're from Amazon and I can't seem to find the right size anymore to add link. The actual lighting units i have measure 116cm with extendable brackets either side. The vinyl wrapped cabinet sounds cool👍

[@sassilou]

@@GEORDIESCAPER thank you for getting back to me. Ok I'll try find something similar. After taking the stand apart to wrap each section I realised that the water damage to the stand was severe. Like swelling of the bottom pieces as not all the sides are covered with the melomine coating. The back sides are chipboard. For the price of these aquariums there should be extra screws and wooden dowel supports. The wrapping was the best idea. It looks so good! It was the beech effect juwel Rio. Looked orange when I got it. Can't grumble tho, I got it for £30. It even had a bad snail issue... So it's been vinegar washed and razored all the glass... Looks amazing! No more snails! Still going to be a while yet before I set it up! Need to figure out how much substrate I'm gonna need for it and also need a new intake pipe for my external filter as it's not long enough... I'm hoping by the time I'm done it will look better than yours! 🤘🏻🤣🙌🏻 But then again it won't cz I'm opting for no real plants in mine. Golden barbs nibble it!

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

@@sassilou Bargain, sounds like you've done a great job on getting it back to it's former glory. Best of luck when you set it up👍

[@nickijones24]

Beautiful, I wonder what it looks like now? Did you use aqua soil, I was just wondering because I had Malawi cichlids for years with only rock and now I’m just setting up a planted tank with fish that don’t eat plants but I don’t know much about plants. Are there many plants that take nutrients in though their leaves without the need for aqua soil?

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thank you so much Nicki. Sadly this tank was stripped a while ago now, got quite a few setups going on though. There's a really good choice of epiphytes (plants that attach to wood and stone) so you can have those without the soil and they feed via the water column. Here's a link to a short, these are plants that attach to wood and stone. kzbin.infop3hKgCn_Cvk?feature=share

[@nickijones24]

@@GEORDIESCAPER thank you so much 😊

[@kaneo317]

Love this tank! What is the name of the tall thin plant in the back right corner?

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou so much the tall plant is crpypt balansae, great plant for the background.

[@r.4kram]

Hi Mate, hope you're well. Where did you get the wood ornaments? Beautiful aquascape by the way.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou. All the hardscape materials are from horizonaquatics.co.uk/ Amazing place👍

[@r.4kram]

@@GEORDIESCAPER Thanks a bunch. I wish you the best of luck, and for this channel to get big. Keep it up 😃

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

@@r.4kram Appreciate that thankyou so much👍

[@richardandrews4076]

Another great video ! Love the tank Doesn’t the Rio come with a built in filter ?

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou so much. It's does yeah but i took it out to use external filters.

[@richardandrews4076]

GEORDIE SCAPER was it easy to remove ? Because I love the Rio look but don’t like the internal filter

[@BlatentlyFakeName]

It's stuck in with silicone so you have to cut it out.

[@rhcppunk]

Thanks for gr8 videos.. I have just bought a similar juwel, I changed the light to spectrum with controller and 1000l pump. The shop bought back the Helialux and pumphead, I got 100eu discount. Can you tell me what types of plants you have? Especially the cryptocoryne variants.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Thankyou so much glad you're enjoying the videos😊👍 Plants: Trident fern Anubias petite and pangalino Bucephalandra (red, wavy green, kedagang) Crypts (wendtii tropica, undulata, balansae crispatula, there's one other but I honestly can't remember which crypt it is).

[@benbrown9158]

Is there a reason why you changed the lights on the juwel tank? What’s wrong with the standard ones?

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

The standard ones are OK but I prefer to add full RGB, more wattage to benefit the plants best.

[@romanojanuszkiewicz9157]

Great video 👌🏽 I normally do one 50% change a week so will try two and see if that helps the plants etc. what light intensity do you use? I have the Fluval plant 3.0 and run it at 60% for my easy category plants but still get the odd brown algae. Any advice would be great 👍🏽

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi there and thankyou. The lights are cheap lights from Amazon and have no intensity control but they are only 70w in total. lean fert dosing and 2 water changes a week as well as a good algae eating crew (amano shrimp, nirate snails, otos and Siamese Algae eater) have all helped me keep algae under control. Hope this helps👍

[@jascarty3503]

Hi mate, I've just subscribed to your channel due to your water change system, quality, I'm def gonna get on it, I'm currently thinking of setting up my first aquarium in 20yrs,im going to buy the juwel lido 180,def easy setup, no co2, it's complicating enough without getting into that, 😂.. I've got to put it off for a few months as I'm moving up your way soon to Ashington, so will def get one delivered up there, firstly any tips on best places to buy fish up there, and also have you any tips in the rio 180 system you could give me pls, cheers pal.. Jas.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi Jas, Thanks for subscribing, very much appreciated. Horizon Aquatics www.horizonaquatics.co.uk/ is an amazing place with a great selection of tanks, healthy fish, plants and all you need. As far as tips go If you watch this video I give some tips, different tank back then but same principles. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJTOiYiFisyBgpI Best of luck with the move to the good old North East of England👍

[@sureshmahatheva1732]

hi helpful video. is the biovert fertx good? how many ml you dose for the 240 liters tank. both ferts please. im thinkng to buy them.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi there and thankyou. They're ok but I now use Seachem ferts as per bottle instructions. I follow the seachem weekly dosing routine and prefer to dose everything seperate these days so I have more control of what fert, amounts etc I use.

[@TheFreddenmark]

How to clean OUTSIDE glass properly ?

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi Frederik, A little white vinegar and microfibre cloth, streak free. Done it for years👍

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hello dad

[@lubomatrix169]

Hello, i like your Aquarium a lot 👍 i have a question: what oase filter is yours?

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi there, Thankyou so much. It's the Oase Biomaster Thermo 350 canister filter.

[@lubomatrix169]

@@GEORDIESCAPER thank you very much 😀

[@hilaryshenton7689]

What are the rocks you have in this tank?

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi Hilary, they're black lava stone.

[@craigsmart1986]

How come you didn't use the led lighting that comes with the tank?

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hi Craig...I wanted full spectrum rgb and couldn't find what I wanted in the Juwel led tubes.

[@craigsmart1986]

@@GEORDIESCAPER Cheers, I ask because I'm considering the juwel 125.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

@@craigsmart1986 nothing wrong with the lights they come with, they'll still grow easy category plants, just my personal preference👍

[@stevepellowe325]

Hello How long into a new set up should I do my first water change? Its a Juwel rio 240 with an Ocean Free Hydra 1500. All readings are good and its been running for 2 weeks. Thanks Steve

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

I water change every day for the first 2 weeks and gradually bring it down to once a week. I'm a strong believer in regular large water changes. If you're readings are all good a water change won't effect this.

[@stevepellowe325]

@@GEORDIESCAPER thanks very much, you're videos are a great help 👍🏻

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Appreciate it thankyou so much.

[@anneharkin168]

Hi hi, greetings from Melbourne. I would love to reproduce your tank. I am getting a Jewel Rio 240 in three days. Can you tel me the rocks and plants you used when you have a minute please. 🦘🦘🦘

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

Hey there, thank you and flattered this scape inspired you. 🇬🇧🇳🇿 Rocks were Black lava stone. Plants what I remember were: Trident fern Anubias petite Cryptocoryne green & brown Cryptocoryne balansae/crispatula Bucephalandra kedagang Thanks again👍👍

[@azureaviantoo2352]

I have 16 tanks and I do 10-20% once a week on each.

[@GEORDIESCAPER]

And if that works for you...perfect, especially with all those tanks. I dose daily quite a bit with ferts so like to do a bigger water change to reset everything and siphon out as much detritus as possible.